Savouring

Definition: Savouring

Savouring

Noun

1. Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most".

Date "savouring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

"Savouring" is a common misspelling or typo for: savoring.

Synonyms: Savouring

Synonyms: degustation (n), relishing (n), savoring (n), tasting (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: savour (food & agriculture), taste.

"Savouring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.00% of the time. "Savouring" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	98%	98	33,072
Noun (singular)	2%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	100	N/A

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-s-u-v"
	-1 letter: arousing, savoring.
	-2 letters: giaours, origans, ourangs, ravings, rousing, rovings, saviour, signora, soaring, souring, various, vigours, viragos.
	-3 letters: argons, arsino, avions, giaour, girons, grains, grison, groans, groins, guanos, guiros, invars, norias, oaring, onagri, orangs, organs, origan, ourang, rasing, raving, ravins, rosing, roving, rugosa, sarong, saving, savior, savour, signor, soring, souari, sovran, unrigs, vigors, vigour, vinous, virago, virgas.
	-4 letters: agios, agons, airns, argon, argus, arson, arvos, auris, avion, aviso, gains, garni, gaurs, girns, giron, giros, gnars, gonia, grain, grans, grins, groan, groin, guano, guans, guars, guiro, invar, irons, naris, noirs, noria, noris, novas, orang, organ, ornis, ragis, rains, ranis, ravin, rings, roans, rosin, ruing, ruins, rungs, sarin, savin, savor, sonar, sugar, suing, unais, unrig, using, vagus, vairs, vangs, varus, vigas, vigor, vinas, vinos, virga, virus, visor.
	-5 letters: agin, agio, agon, ains, airn, airs, anis, anus, arvo, avos, gain, gars, gaun, gaur, gins, girn, giro, gnar, gnus, goas, gran, grin, guan, guar, guns, guvs, inro, ions, iron, nags, naoi, naos, nogs, noir, nori, nous, nova, oars, onus, osar, ours, ragi, rags, rain, rang, rani, rias, rigs, ring, rins, roan, ruga, rugs, ruin, rung, runs, sago, sain, sang, sari, sign, sing, snag, snog, snug, soar, song, sora, sori, sorn, sour, sung, sura, unai, urns, ursa, vagi, vain, vair, vang, vans, vars, vaus, viga, vigs, vina, vino, visa, vugs.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r-s-u-v"
	+1 letter: viraginous.
	+2 letters: granivorous, outsavoring, oversaucing.
	+3 letters: oversanguine, vainglorious.
	+4 letters: graminivorous, overslaughing.
	+5 letters: overpersuading, oversaturating, superovulating, vaingloriously, vulgarizations.
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